Rent: Live Should Have Made TV History. Instead, It Wasnt Even Live.
Rent: Live stars Tinashe and Brennin Hunt in a dress rehearsal. Rent: Live, a mostly prerecorded telecast cobbled together in the wake of cast member Brennin Hunt’s broken foot, should have been called Rent: Live-ish. I can’t remember the last time a live TV event on a major broadcast network made so many elementally wrongheaded decisions in response to a sudden, behind-the-scenes misfortune. It’s as if they had misremembered the old showbiz maxim as “Give the audience what it doesn’t want.
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